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REVIEWS:American Record Guide (11-12/97, p.253) - "...Here are some of the passions of [the Gilded Age] played out right before your ears by an ensemble of adept and very personable singers. From Populist protests (`The Hand That Holds the Bread') to suffragette anthems (`When the Girls Can Vote'), to racist ditties about Chinese laborers (`Little Ah Sid'), the themes of the times are brought out vividly....If you have any interest at all in the history of our country, I think you'll get a lot out of this off-beat, well-sung anthology."REVIEWS:American Record Guide (11-12/97, p.253) - "...Here are some of the passions of [the Gilded Age] played out right before your ears by an ensemble of adept and very personable singers. From Populist protests (`The Hand That Holds the Bread') to suffragette anthems (`When the Girls Can Vote'), to racist ditties about Chinese laborers (`Little Ah Sid'), the themes of the times are brought out vividly....If you have any interest at all in the history of our country, I think you'll get a lot out of this off-beat, well-sung anthology." Read less

Out of Workby Septimus Winner Conductor:
Earl Rivers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Cincinnati's University Singers
Period: Romantic Written: USA Notes: This work was written by Septimus Winner under the pseudonym "AliceHawthorne."

The Chinese, the Chinese, you knowby W. S. Mullally Conductor:
Earl Rivers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Cincinnati's University Singers
Period: Romantic Written: USA Notes: This song was written in collaboration with John E. Donnelly.

When the girls can voteby M. H. Evans Conductor:
Earl Rivers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Cincinnati's University Singers
Period: Romantic Written: USA Notes: This song was written in collaboration with Emma Pow Smith.

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